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Thursday, October 20, 2011

The winner of the team vote in our October challenge, Joanne Teague of ThistleDew4U, has selected her December theme for our final challenge of the year.

The theme of December's Etsy Beadweavers challenge is "ARABESQUE STYLE." Arabesque is an ornamental design style consisting of interwoven vines, flowers, leaves and geometric forms, often combined with other motifs. Motifs in Persian art can be a paisley, a geometric shape, a horse, lion, or flower. Western art motif examples include acanthus, egg and dart, and fleur de lis. Arabesque patterning is used in Persian rugs, tilework, medieval manuscripts, embroidery patterns and architecture. Think of it as your own creative fodder. The subject is broad, spanning several centuries and cultures with a wealth of inspiration material. What will you make of it? We shall see. Joanne offers this inspirational image to get you started: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

You may list your entry anytime between now and the 5th of December 2011, but don't tag it EBWC until after November 15th.Only current members of Etsy Beadweavers may enter the challenge. If you are not a member, but have an Etsy shop and are into beadweaving please check out our membership requirements and complete the short survey at the button on the right. JOIN ETSY BEADWEAVERS.

THE CHALLENGE RULES

Any EBW member may create one new beadweaving of your own design (not from a kit, book, magazine, or class) in response to the challenge theme. Your work should be entirely beadwoven, or have a substantially woven component, to feature and promote our art form. You may not renew an existing piece or list a tutorial as an entry.

Members are expected to participate in challenges when possible, and required to do so once each year. Start the weaving anytime after the theme is announced. Complete and list the work for sale on Etsy by the 5th of the month of the challenge, before midnight Etsy (Eastern Standard) time. Your listing date is proof you entered by the deadline, and also determines your placement in the mosaic, so DO NOT RENEW your work until after the voting poll opens on the 9th.

Your listing must be for sale for the duration of the challenge, unless it sells from your shop. If that happens, please alert the moderators to your sale, and you can still participate. If you must reserve your listing for purchase, please follow Etsy's recommendations and edit both your title and your description to begin with: "RESERVED FOR (buyer's Etsy username) ONLY." Etsy does not allow the listing of items not for sale, so reserving your entry to sell elsewhere or keep for yourself is not permitted.

WHAT INFORMATION MUST BE IN MY LISTING?

Your listing must include the following four (4) things:

1. The theme of the challenge. For example, “This (describe your work) was created for the Etsy Beadweavers Team (insert the month) challenge on the theme (insert the title of the theme).”

2. An explanation of how your work relates to the theme.

3. The address of our team blog where the voting will take place and the voting dates. For example, “Please visit our team blog, http://www.etsy-beadweavers.blogspot.com between the 9th and 15th and vote for your favorite entry.”

4.Tag your entry EBWC. This is how we find your entry. Please test this tag by seaarching "handmade" and "EBWC" on Etsy. If your entry does not appear in this search within an hour after listing and tagging it, please contact a moderator for assistance. Please do not apply this tag until after the previous challenge poll closes on the 15th, and remove the tag after the voting poll closes, so entries for the next month’s challenge can be featured.

About Promoting the Public Voting Poll

The purpose of the public poll is to bring as many viewers to our team blog as possible, increasing awareness of Etsy Beadweavers and our art form. The winner of the public poll should be the work that the most viewers liked the best. Promote the challenge by inviting as many friends, acquaintances, co-workers and family members as you like to vote for their favorite entry. Please use your blog, Facebook, Twitter and any other resources you have to drive traffic to our blog during the challenge. Feel free to say which entry is yours. Many friends will choose to support you with a vote. But please DO NOT request that your friends vote for your work, or that of another member. Please let them make up their own minds about which entry they like the best. Let’s play fair with each other, and keep our challenges fun for all.

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Congratulations go to Nazo of Pinararpaci and her One Picasso's Ladies is Lying on My Neck Necklace winner of the "Inspired by Picasso" Challenge Fan favortie vote, Nazo's entry received 113 votes (18%) of the 623 votes. The runners up were as follows:

Saturday, October 8, 2011

The October 2011 challenge, chosen bySarah Breese of BohoDameDesigns, invited our members to create original designs "Inspired by Picasso." We were challenged "... to do a bit of research on Pablo Picasso's many different styles and create your own beadwoven masterpiece, inspired by his work. Picasso's journey as an artist took him through many different periods such as Blue, Rose, Cubism, Neo-Classicism, and Surrealism. With so many artistic periods to choose from, the sky is the limit for this challenge.If you would like to work from a specific drawing, painting or sculpture - as I did with my "Inspired by Picasso" bracelet - that is perfectly fine. You can reference your source of inspiration in the description, but it is copyright infringement to post any photos of Picasso’s work along with your work, and direct copying of any portion of his imagery is also prohibited, and will result in disqualification. I hope you all have a blast doing a bit of research and learning about one of the greatest artists of modern times"

Please click on any image in the mosaic below to see additional views and read about each piece in detail.

Voting for the challenge runs October 9th - October 15th, 2011.Please vote only once for your favorite.

About Etsy Beadweavers

Etsy Beadweavers is a group of beaders who market their creations on Etsy.com. The Beadweavers' creations are different from many of the traditional beaded items, in that they are woven from hundreds or thousands of tiny beads to create intricate designs and pictures. These weavings take the form of both art and jewelry. Each piece takes many hours to complete, with some larger pieces taking weeks or even months.

This blog is devoted to the creations of this group of talented artisans.